While many on Merseyside will be sad to see him go, Liverpool have made a tidy profit by selling Philippe Coutinho - a player signed for £8.5million - to Barcelona for a fee which could rise to £142million.

Liverpool have prepared a contingency plan if they do sell Philippe Coutinho to Barcelona this window, and the Anfield club will first look to Monaco’s Thomas Lemar with Leicester City’s Riyad Mahrez as a back-up, and also try to sign a new goalkeeper.

Seamus Coleman suffered a gut-wrenching broken leg. James McCarthy endured the Chinese torture of a hundred tweaks and twinges of the hamstring which made him nothing so much as a bitter source of dissension between his former Everton manager Ronald Koeman and Ireland's Martin O'Neill.

Barcelona now believe they can complete the signing of Philippe Coutinho as early as next week, after a breakthrough was made in pursuit of what would be the third-biggest transfer in football history.

The Everton players stopped talking, opened their changing room door and listened. Along the corridor at Goodison Park, Liverpool's players and staff were holding a heated inquest into how they had four times surrendered a lead in a Merseyside derby. Tensions were spilling over.

If the feeling for many around Liverpool and Barcelona is that Philippe Coutinho's move to Camp Nou is inevitable, and so many more think it makes obvious sense to do a deal for the summer, there is then one big question from the latest development in the saga: why are the Liga leaders going so s...

The Everton players stopped talking, opened their changing room door and listened. Along the corridor at Goodison Park, Liverpool's players and staff were holding a heated inquest into how they had four times surrendered a lead in a Merseyside derby. Tensions were spilling over.

Monaco boss Leonardo Jardim has insisted Liverpool will fail in any efforts to sign Thomas Lemar this month, but those words are unlikely to dilute interest in the France international from the Anfield club if Phillipe Coutinho moves to Barcelona.

Liverpool kicked off the January transfer window with a big money signing to strengthen their defence but Eamon Dunphy thinks that Jurgen Klopp missed a big opportunity to fortify his rearguard last summer by failing to make a goalkeeping change.

Jurgen Klopp appears to have made some progress with Liverpool over the course of 2017, but the statistics confirm the Reds were a long way behind their leading rivals over the course of the last year.

Philippe Coutinho is unlikely to play any part in Liverpool's FA Cup third round clash against Everton at Anfield on Friday night, amid fresh claims that he has asked to leave the club and seal a move to Barcelona.

Philippe Coutinho is unlikely to play any part in Liverpool's FA Cup third round clash against Everton at Anfield on Friday night, amid fresh claims that he has asked to leave the club and seal a move to Barcelona.

These are heady days to be a Liverpool centre-half. Much maligned, terrorised on social media, and effectively written off as surplus to requirements now Virgil van Dijk is the most expensive Christmas gift in football history, you might have expected Ragnar Klavan and Dejan Lovren to prepare for...

Philippe Coutinho did not travel with Liverpool for their New Year's Day game against Burnley, amid mounting speculation that he will be the subject of a fresh transfer bid from Barcelona in this month's transfer window.

INDEPENDENT.IE broke the biggest football transfer of 2017 as our exclusive on December 23rd revealed that Virgil van Dijk was on the brink of a record-breaking move to Liverpool - and now we can uncover the details behind our story that created headlines around the world.

Liverpool will demand an astronomical fee for Philippe Coutinho before they consider the sale of the Brazilian to Barcelona after the Spanish side's shirt manufacturers were guilty of an extraordinary marketing blunder.